Past Exhibition
Lovers & Fighters: Prints by Latino Artists in the SAMA Collection
Yreina D. Cervántez, American, born 1952 and Leo Limón, American, born 1952, Estrella of the Dawn, 1988, Screen print, Image: 15 7/8 × 21 7/8 in. (40.3 × 55.6 cm); Sheet: 21 7/8 × 30 in. (55.6 × 76.2 cm), San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 91.62.7, © Yreina D. Cervántez and Leo Limón
Lovers & Fighters: Prints by Latino Artists in the SAMA Collection highlights works featuring imagery and subjects related to concepts of love, power, and struggle.
Romantic couples, heart motifs, boxers, and wrestlers evoke “lovers” and “fighters” and serve as points of departure to explore these seemingly opposing concepts. However, the prints on view reframe and expand upon those subjects, offering nuanced interpretations of emotions that go beyond stereotypes of romance and violence.
The focus on printmaking also demonstrates the medium’s influence in Latino art history—from politically engaged works produced at the Taller de Gráfica Popular printmaking collective in 1940s Mexico City to Chicano activism in America during the ’60s and ’70s and today’s community-based studios, including Self Help Graphics in Los Angeles and Coronado Studio in Austin. The medium’s capacity to produce multiple prints enables accessibility to a broad audience while its ability to capture bold, graphic imagery provides a resounding platform for the artist’s voice.
This focus exhibition will be displayed in four rounds:
Round I:
- Saturday, April 20–Sunday, July 14, 2024
Round II:
- Saturday, August 3–Sunday, October 20, 2024
Round III:
- Saturday, October 26–Sunday, January 5, 2025
Round IV:
- Saturday, January 11–Sunday, April 20, 2025
Exhibition Gallery
Yreina D. Cervántez, American, born 1952 and Leo Limón, American, born 1952, Estrella of the Dawn, 1988, Screen print, Image: 15 7/8 × 21 7/8 in. (40.3 × 55.6 cm); Sheet: 21 7/8 × 30 in. (55.6 × 76.2 cm), San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 91.62.7, © Yreina D. Cervántez and Leo Limón
Ruth Buentello, American, born 1984, Spring Love Come Back to Me, 2012, Screen print, Image: 19 3/8 × 16 3/8 in. (49.2 × 41.6 cm); Sheet: 30 × 22 1/8 in. (76.2 × 56.2 cm), San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Ricardo and Harriett Romo, 2013.15.24, © Ruth Buentello
Carlos Francisco Jackson, American, born 1978, Departure: Braceros Departing Mexico City for California, 1943, 2009, Screen print, Image: 23 3/4 × 37 7/8 in. (60.3 × 96.2 cm); Sheet: 29 3/4 × 43 7/8 in. (75.6 × 111.4 cm), San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Ricardo and Harriett Romo, 2015.7.35, © Carlos Francisco Jackson
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